Graphic Design Trend: 3D Illustration Pt. 2

I have tried the 3D Illustration trend and mostly completed it with Adobe Illustrator, but for this one I tried mainly using Adobe Photoshop. The first thing I did in the older 3D illustration was test out the Adobe Illustrator effect, 3D and Materials. This time, I created the 3D effect in Photoshop by playing around with the lights and shadows. I am very comfortable with lights and shadows, I love physically drawing with charcoal where that is the basic concept. I applied my skills of drawing into this new 3D illustration, and in my opinion this one was way more successful.

The first thing I did when creating this 3D illustration was draw a rectangle in the middle of the Photoshop artboard with the Rectangle tool, choosing black as the fill color. I then rounded the edges of this black rectangle to appear like a playing card. I then made a smaller second rectangle, this time coloring the stroke a dark red and leaving the fill color blank, and placing it in the center of the black rectangle. I then typed a “K” in the Adobe font “Mon Nicolette Toscane” and placed the letter in the left top corner, right side up, and bottom right corner, upside down, of the red rectangle. I then created a spade shape with a skull cut out in a separate Photoshop artboard, copied, and pasted it directly under the letter. The centered art on the face of the card was taken from a drawing I had previously done of a skull. I took my drawing of a skull and centered it on the card, copied it, and pasted it twice. I took the two copies of the skull drawing and shrunk them down, making the last one the smallest and the second one a medium size. I then layered the medium skull on top of the first one, and layered the smallest one on top. This created a trippy illusion on the face of the card. I then chose “Linear Light” for the first two skulls and “Hard Light” for the bottom one of the blending filters. I then took this done playing card, copied it, and placed it in another separate artboard to later be used. I changed the “K” on the card to a “Q”, lowered the centered skull art, and drew a crown on top of the skull, representing the queen card. I did the same thing with the number 2 card, only making a second copy of the skull art and placing them off centered from one another. I took these two other cards and placed them with the original king card in the separate art board. I then organized each card accordingly and simply applied the Photoshop Effects: “Bevel and Emboss” and “Drop Shadow”. I adjusted each card, displaying the appropriate shadows and lights. “Graphicality” at the bottom is created using the “​​Taurunum Ferrum” Adobe font and using the emboss effect in “Bevel and Emboss”.

Sources

Stewart, C. (2020, September 10). 13 custom design playing cards. Creative Bloq. Retrieved April 14, 2022, from https://www.creativebloq.com/design/custom-playing-cards-8133759

Vio, J. (2021, September 20). Mastering the art of 3D lighting with Adobe Dimension. PRINT Magazine. Retrieved April 14, 2022, from https://www.printmag.com/3d-visualization/mastering-the-art-of-3d-lighting-with-adobe-dimension/